Happy Birthday Nate!

We celebrated Nate's 3rd birthday on Sunday, April 19th by inviting our missionary family over for cake and ice cream. Nate chose to have a blue cake and wanted Prince Charming on it. Since Nicole was decorating the cake, she gave Nate a few choices of what could be on the cake, he had a blue cake with a soccer ball on it. The whole day Nate was excited about being 3 and having his birthday. He caught on quickly and told everyone that it was his birthday and showed everyone how old he was by holding up 3 fingers.

On Monday, his actual birthday, he kept telling people that he was just "little again" and he wasn't 3 anymore that he was only 2. By Tuesday we had convinced him that after your birthday you stay 3, so he realized that it was good to be three. Nate sang Happy Birthday for everyone for 4 days after his party.

We are so grateful for our adopted family here. We feel extremely close to all of them, and are already sad about leaving them here. We feel extremely blessed to know them and will always consider them our family.